Red faces all round – or so there should be – from those suspected of premature Christmas festivities while we’re still in Advent.

First up is David Cameron, who, taking the long flight to Helmand Province, announced the British have accomplished their Afghanistan mission.

He must have put away too much pop en route. “Accomplished” implies a successful end to a venture. The truth is that soldiers are still being killed by traitorous Taliban enrolled in our forces who blow themselves and our men up.

And, back on the dirt-poor soil of this beautiful and heart-breaking country, farmers are taking out Taliban loans to grow still more opium (another way of weakening the West, they believe, is to drown us in addiction).

The only race to have conquered in Afghanistan is its own. We got a bloody nose in the Afghan Wars. Russia limped home, broken backed.

As the last battalions leave, the Taliban, re-armed and rested, will swoop back, trickling over the porous Pakistani border to lure suggestible and (again) uneducated young inner city men to training camps – their parents think they’re off to family weddings or shorthand courses up mountains. I’ve seen no accomplishment yet. Just 446 dead troops.

* Next among the beetroot-hued is Khalid Mahmood, the usually sane Labour MP for Perry Barr, who huffs and puffs over the ‘disgrace’ of Middlesborough fans allegedly tearing up copies of the Koran to insult Blues’ Muslim supporters at a home game.

He flatters these louts. I’d have thought it obvious this was more ignorance than race-hate, an excess of lager among the vapid enjoying of an away-day.

I suppose Khalid, of whom I’m fond, feels he must be shocked at what seems to mischief-makers an insult to Islam. But it’s not.

To insult, the culpable must know what they’re doing. The ‘Boro fans didn’t. They spring from the “let’s have a punch-up for Christmas” majority.

They are neither better nor worse than the idiotic Muslim throng who rampaged through London’s Brick Lane proclaiming there would be 40 lashes of the whip dealt out to all Muslim traders selling alcohol.

Their area, they shouted, was a Sharia-ruled and anti-gay enclave where hand-holding and kissing between the unmarried was forbidden.

Remove Khalid from this and what have we? Two bunches of yobbos, probably unemployed, behaving as thick-heads have always behaved. Nothing to choose between them. Christianity and Islam doesn’t come into this scenario.